GRE Word List
SPRUCE
to make spruce
The meaning of the word spruce is to make spruce.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| bout | a spell or period of activity: such as |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |